Q. Why is a mattrass bed, or hearth-rug a good security against injury from lightning?
A. Because they are all non-conductors; and, as lightning always takes in its course the best conductors, it would not select such things as these.
Q. Is it better to be wet or dry during a storm?
A. To be wet: if a person be in the open field, the best thing he can do, is to stand about 20 feet from some tree, and get completely drenched to the skin.
Q. Why is it better to be wet than dry?
A. Because the wet clothes would form a far better conductor than the fluids of our body; and, lightning would roll down the wet clothes, without touching our body at all.
Q. What is the safest thing a person can do to avoid injury from lightning?
A. He should draw his bedstead into the middle of his room, commit himself to the care of God, and go to bed; remembering that our Lord has said, “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.”
Q. What is a lightning-conductor?